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INTERNAL LANDSCAPES: IMAGES OF INNER SPACE: Illustrating the work of J.G Ballard

This project sought to identify and employ an authentic aesthetic mode for illustrating the work of JG Ballard. The final pieces, illustrating passages from 'The Atrocity Exhibition' respond to Ballard's own 'Advertiser's Announcements' experiments, in which he sought to develop a new mode for publishing his literary ideas through mass-media advertising:

“ I originally wanted a large format book, printed by photo offset, in which I would produce the artwork – a lot of collages, material taken from medial documents and medical photographs, crashing cars and all that sort of iconography.”... “Of course I was advertising my own conceptual ideas, but I wanted to do so within the formal circumstances of classic commercial advertising – I wanted ads that would look in place in Vogue, Paris Match, Newsweek, etc.” J.G.Ballardhttp://www.eyemagazine.com/opinion/article/inner-space-man